From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Adepts and Astral Projection
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:05:12 -0600

Steve Kenson wrote:
|
| >Is it possible for a physical being to seperate it's astral form and project
| it into the >physical plane (astral travel with travelling to the astral)?
|
| No. An astral form must exist in astral space by definition. An astral form
| can become visible to characterrs on the physical plane, but it remains in
| astral space.

Cool.

| EVERYTHING has an aura. Astral beings do not normally have a physical form,
| but can create one out of the stuff of the astral plane when they Manifest.

Gotcha. It also explains the ITN ability (since they have a body that's
formed from "magic".

| >Is an astral being able to project it's astral form onto the physical
| >(that form of manifestation that's mentioned in a few of the books
| >and adventures)?
|
| Astral beings can make their astral form visible to the physical world, but
| they are only phantoms, still immaterial and unable to touch or affect
| anything physical. To affect the physical world, the spirit must Manifest.

The one thing I'm having trouble with is that you feel (I think :)
that auras are only present on the astral plane. I think it'd be a
whole lot easier to say that for physical objects (beings/things)
their auras are on the physical plane, and they cast a shadow on the
astral plane. (In the case of a living being their aura casts light
onto the astral plane.) The auras of astral objects reside on the
astral plane. If an object is dual natured it could be either way.

This, for me, goes a long way toward explaining some things: why an
astral being can't interact with a purely physical object (no astral
presence). Why so many species died out when the magic ebbed. They
where dual natured beings whose aura was on the astral, and when the
gap between the astral and the physical became to great they died.
Some beings that were strong enough were able to maintain a teneable
link. Some beings stored up enough magic to keep that link open.
And some beings (dragons) travelled to a metaplane or something.

Anyway, all IMHO :)

-David
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